Not after they accused him of attempting to wrench one of their arms off and another’s head off during last year’s clash at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

Late in the first half of Buffalo’s 35-17 win, Hali took a couple of attempt-to-injure “cheap shots,” two Bills offensive linemen said in the locker room after the game.

The Bills were on the Chiefs’ two-yard line with 4:21 left in the half in that Sept. 16 game after a long gain by Buffalo’s C.J. Spiller.

K.C. stuffed Buffalo’s Dorin Dickerson for an eight-yard loss. That’s when Hali apparently lost his cool.

“I think I tripped or something and fell, so he thought I was trying to cut him,” said then-Bills left guard Andy Levitre, who signed as a free agent in March with the Tennessee Titans. “And he tried to twist my neck. He took both of his arms and pinched them around my helmet and (twisted), so that got me going a little bit. So I reacted to that.

“We were talking back and forth, and on the following play he tried to come inside, and I threw him on the ground.”

That play was a touchdown, a 10-yard pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Scott Chandler that put the Bills up 21-0. On the play, Hali targeted then rookie Buffalo left tackle Cordy Glenn, “trying to (twist his) arm out of the socket,” Bills centre Eric Wood said.

“We’re not going to stand for that.”

Indeed. Within seconds three Bills linemen appeared to jump on Hali in defence of Glenn, as the rest of their teammates were celebrating the score. It was quite the scrum but, incredibly, no flags were thrown.

Both Levitre and Wood said several Chiefs later “started jawing off” like they did during the Bills' 41-7 victory at K.C. in 2011.

On the two plays in question last year, Wood said Hali went after “Andy and Cordy — guys that are performing. (The Chiefs) get ticked off. You get a team down, and like I said, they’re going to take some shots at you. That’s why we weren't taking our foot off their throats at the end.

“That stuff rubs you pretty wrong. And going into the half we were pretty ticked off, for sure.”

Added Levitre: “That got us fired up a little bit. As an offensive line, we’re all together. We don’t take any crap from anybody.”

The NFL did not fine Hali afterward.

On Wednesday, Hali was asked about the incident on a conference call with Bills beat writers.

“It’s a new year,” said Hali, who is fifth in the NFL in sacks this season with nine. “Both sides of the ball, we should focus on the game at hand and not worry about what happened last year.

“I don’t consider myself a dirty player. I haven’t had a reputation for that, but you know, we should move forward from last year and focus on this game at hand.”

Pressed further, Hali stopped short of admitting the Bills players’ charges were true. He also did not deny them.

“A lot of things happen during a game that we can’t go back and change. That doesn’t mean a player’s a dirty player. But that was last year, guys.”

Sunday’s game is the last for the 8-0 Chiefs before their bye next week, which precedes the first of their two AFC West games against the Denver Broncos.

The Bills, 3-5, need to win to have any realistic hope of vying for a playoff berth.